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Roland in the Deep

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Nathan

I think I first heard of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in a blurb about C.S. Lewis comparing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to it. Well, they do both have a magic ring that makes people invisible, and a monster … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Christianity, French, Greek Mythology, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged amazons, andromeda, arimaspoi, astolfo, atlante, avalon, basil of caesarea, battle of roncevaux pass, beowulf, chanson de roland, charlemagne, childe roland to the dark tower came, cortana, durendal, elijah, fairies, faleero, falerina, ferragut, giants, griffins, halo, hector, hell, hippogriffs, holga danske, horses, hugh capet of france, huon of bordeaux, jesus, john the apostle, king lear, lethe river, lord of the rings, ludovico ariosto, matteo maria boiardo, merlin, moon, morgan le fay, ogier the dane, orcas, orcs, orlando furioso, orlando innamorato, paladin, penthesileia, pliny the elder, prester john, rinaldo, robert browning, roland, roland the headless thompson gunner, ruggiero, st. denis, st. peter, stephen king, swords, tristan and isolde, virgin mary, warren zevon, water of oblivion, weapons | Leave a comment

Purple Horse, Pink Goat, Blue Woozy

Posted on July 13, 2022 by Nathan

Scan by Jared Davis The 1992 Oziana gives us a rather striking cover illustration, a picture by Eric Shanower of the Wicked Witch of the East as she realizes she’s about to be crushed by a house. “A Christmas Tree … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Christmas, Comics, Eric Shanower, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a christmas tree for dorothy, afterlife, bill eubank, blue emperor, brent peddy, christmas trees, cindy jen, daniel han, david maxine, deepa mehta, dorothy gale, dorothy's christmas tree, emerald city, everett avila, fred meyer, gayelette, goats, henry blossom, high boy, horses, joe mcsweeney, kabumpo, kabumpo in oz, kingdom of dreams, krizzle kroo, lurline, magic mistake bag, nicole bent, oziana, ozma, pastoria, professor nowitall, ricky blount, robin olderman, sandman, santa claus, scarecrow, shaune anderson, stars, the blue emperor of oz, the giant horse of oz, the journey, the purple prince of oz, the road to oz, the silver princess in oz, the tail of the pink goat, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tin woodman, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz, wizards, woozy | 2 Comments

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Nathan

The 1979 Oziana starts out by saying three stories “seems to be a typical number,” which is generally true, although the previous one had four. The cover illustration by Rob Roy MacVeigh shows the Scarecrow in a cornfield, with a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Dennis Anfuso, Humor, Jeff Rester, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aunt em, cowardly lion, dorothy and the wizard in oz, emerald city, geoffrey l. gould, glinda, gloma, greg gick, hank and the scarecrow of oz, hank the mule, horses, hungry tiger, jack pumpkinhead, jim the cab-horse, journal of a journey, mary rakestraw, oziana, rob roy macveigh, robert pattrick, ruth berman, scarecrow, school of hard knocks, shaggy man, stephanie hawks, the deadly desert around oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the real critics, the wishing horse of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), toto, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, witches, wizard of oz, zeb hugson | 2 Comments

Das Lied von der Erdrea

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Nathan

Dragon Quest XI – SPOILERS for the Nintendo Switch version – I’ve finally finished this, or at least defeated Calasmos; I know there’s technically more to do in the post-game. When I first discussed this game, I talked about some … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged calasmos, demon lords, demons, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest ix: sentinels of the starry skies, dragon quest viii, dragon quest xi, dragonlord, dragons, drustan, erdrea, erdrick, erdwin, erik, final fantasy vii, horses, king carnelian of heliodor, luminary, mages, mermaids, morcant, mordegon, nintendo switch, sages, serenica, spectral sentinels, sword of erdrick, sword of kings, sword of light, swords, sylvando, tickington, time travel, world tree, yggdragon, yggdrasil | Leave a comment

Elemental Boogaloo

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Nathan

Frozen 2 – We watched this one last night, and it was a bit of a palate cleanser after hearing about fascists storming the Capitol all day. I’ve said before that I thought the original Frozen was a solid film, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Star Wars, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged agnarr of arendelle, anna of arendelle, classical elements, elementals, elsa of arendelle, frozen, frozen 2, giants, horses, nokks, olaf, runeard of arendelle, salamanders, trolls | Leave a comment

Life with the Luminary

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Nathan

I’ve finally started playing Dragon Quest XI for the Nintendo Switch. Since it’s Dragon Quest, there’s a lot that’s familiar, but there are also some changes to the mechanics that I think might make things a little easier. Battles are … Continue reading →

Posted in Dragon Quest, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Norse, Poetry, Video Games | Tagged arboria, cobblestone, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest xi, erik, gallopolis, haiku, heliodor, horses, hotto, luminary, nintendo switch, serena, sylvando, tickington, time travel, tockles, veronica, yggdrasil, zoom | 1 Comment

If Wishes Were Streetcars

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Nathan

The Wish Express, by Ruth Plumly Thompson – This could essentially be considered the author’s first book, although it wasn’t published in that form during her lifetime. Before she took over the Oz series from L. Frank Baum, she serialized … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Politics, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged charles evan hughes, delusion, democrats, dogs, donkeys, elephants, emerald city, horses, illusion, joe bongiorno, marvelous travels of a wish, ozma, philadelphia public ledger, president theodore roosevelt, president woodrow wilson, queen else of somewhere, republicans, ruth berman, some one else, something else jus tas bad, somewhere, somewhere else, state of discontentment, talktown, the enchanted island of oz, the wish express, the wonder book, the wonderful wizard of oz, thomas nast, through the looking-glass, wishes, wizard of oz, world war i | Leave a comment

Boil, Fry, and Rostam

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Nathan

Having read this post on Tor the other day, I was inspired to look up more information on the legendary Persian hero Rostam, sometimes spelled Rustam. By searching on Google, I discovered that Rostam is also the name of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Greek Mythology, History, Iran, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Persian, Poetry, Religion, Zoroastrianism | Tagged bonu goshasp, demons, div-e sepid, dragons, elephants, esfandyar, faramarz, ferdowsi, goshasp, hercules, horses, kay kavus, lions, parthian empire, rakhsh, rostam, rubadeh, rustam, shaghad, shahnameh, simurgh, sohrab, taminah, witches, zal | Leave a comment

Too Pooped to Koop

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Nathan

Mamma mia! It’s a Super Mario Bros. cartoon! Several of them, in fact. The Mark of Zero – Our first parody for the week is of Zorro. I can’t say I know that much about the character, but I did … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Christianity, Donkey Kong, Egyptian, Food, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Religion, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged american revolution, arsenio trinidad, beezos, bible, clog, cobrats, cookoo bird, delawide river, edison, el desert land, exodus, flurries, fred van winkle, gary schwartz, george washingtoad, goombas, hammer brothers, homer, horses, inspector klean, king bowser koopa, koopa pack, koopa troopas, koopos, luigi mario, mario mario, mario party 7, mouser, norman fell, obi-wan cannoli, obi-wan kenobi, ostros, paul revere, perry martin, phanto, piranha plants, president george washington, princess peach toadstool, pyramid land, pyramids, ratigator, red sauce sea, sand kingdom, shy guys, sphinx, super mario odyssey, ted bull, texas tea, the artist, the koopas are coming! the koopas are coming!, the mark of zero, the spirit of 76, the ten commandments, the ten koopmandments, the three mushrooms, the three stooges, the trojan koopa, tippy turtle, toad, toads, toupee, triclyde, trojan horse, trojan war, tutankhamun, vincent van gogh, zenned out mario, zero, zero plus one, zorro | Leave a comment

You Aren’t Going Nowhere, Fungus

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Nathan

Continued from this post, here are four more Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode reviews: Rolling Down the River – While not exactly the line from “Proud Mary,” they did originally play that song in this episode, earlier in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Beatles, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged bats in the basement, beezos, bob-ombs, brutius maximus grouchimus, clawgrip, dealin' delbert, frankenstein, goombas, horses, hot pepper pistachio ice cream, jack and the beanstalk, joe dolce, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, linguine ampire, lions, love 'em and leave 'em, love potion, luigi mario, mario and the beanstalk, mushroom kingdom, nintendo comics system, ostros, princess peach toadstool, queen of hearts, queen rotunda, rolling down the river, rotunda land, shyguys, spaghetti, subcon, super mario bros. 2, the great gladiator gig, the mario monster mash, toad, triclyde, vampires, you again? | 4 Comments

Tag Archives: horses

Roland in the Deep

Purple Horse, Pink Goat, Blue Woozy

They’re Gonna Put Me in the Movies

Das Lied von der Erdrea

Elemental Boogaloo

Life with the Luminary

If Wishes Were Streetcars

Boil, Fry, and Rostam

Too Pooped to Koop

You Aren’t Going Nowhere, Fungus

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